Themes and Goals

The Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference 2008 (TAIC
PART 2008) establishes a forum for the publication of papers
related to software testing and analysis. The theme of TAIC PART is
transferring software testing technology from academia to
industry. TAIC PART aims to forge collaborations between
industry and academia. The goals of TAIC PART 2008 include the
articulation of fundamental research questions in the field
of software testing and analysis. TAIC PART also focuses on the
practical challenges that are often faced by software
developers in industry.

Call for Papers

TAIC PART 2008
solicits experience, tool, original research,
industry challenge, and academic challenge papers
that explore software testing and analysis techniques. Research
topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Test Adequacy Criteria

Test Suite Execution

Test Coverage Monitoring

Automated Test Data Generation

Regression Testing

Automated Debugging and Fault Localization

Performance Evaluation

Static and Dynamic Analysis

Verification and Validation

Software Reliability Engineering

Model-Based Testing

Testing and Formal Methods

Testing and Model Checking

Software Testing Process

Technology Transfer

TAIC PART solicits papers that focus on the testing and
analysis of software applications that include, but are not
limited to, the following types:

Embedded and Real-Time Systems

Operating Systems

Parallel, Distributed, and Cluster Applications

Service-Oriented Software Systems

Web Applications

Event-Based Systems

File and Storage Systems

Virtual Machine-Based Applications

Database Applications

XML Processing Systems

Graphical User Interfaces

Wireless Sensor Networks

Safety Critical Systems

AI and Machine Learning Software

Business Applications

Types of Papers

Experience reports should provide practical and
generalizable insights into how to apply and extend existing
approaches to software testing and analysis.

Tool papers must focus on the design, implementation,
and evaluation of software testing and analysis tools.

Original Research papers will explore novel software
testing techniques. These papers should furnish a detailed
theoretical and/or empirical evaluation of the proposed
approach.

Industry Challenge papers must have at least one author
whose affiliation in non-academic. These papers will describe a
real-world software testing problem for which help is sought
from the academic research community.

Academic Challenge papers must have at least one author
whose affiliation in non-industry. These papers should explain a
software testing research problem for which help is sought from
industry partners.

Paper Evaluation

All papers will undergo a rigorous examination by at
least three members of the program committee. The program
co-chairs and the program pommittee will provide thoughtful
and fair reviews that furnish detailed insights into ways for
improving and extending the papers. All submitted
papers will be evaluated according to (i) relevance to the
conference themes and goals and (ii) clarity and organization.

Experience reports will be evaluated with respect
to the significance and generality of the described testing
experience.

Research and tool papers will be judged by
the technical merit, novelty, and evaluation of the
described technique or tool.

Industry and academic challenge papers will be
assessed according to their ability to forge partnerships
and ultimately yield successful solutions.

The results described in the submitted paper must
be unpublished and should not be under review at
other workshops, conferences, or journals.

Paper Formatting

Papers should be formatted using the IEEE conference style
format. Including all references and figures,
a research paper must not exceed the ten page
limit and the experience, tool, and industry
and academic challenge papers should be not longer
than five pages. Papers should have an abstract that
is no longer than 150 words. Please be aware that if your
paper is accepted, the abstract may appear in the advance
program and on the TAIC PART 2008 Web site. Authors should
submit a PDF version of their paper through the Submit Paper Web site.

Conference Proceedings

The accepted papers will be published with ISBN by the
IEEE Computer Society and they will appear in the IEEE digital
library. The presentations for all of the accepted papers
will also be provided for download on the TAIC PART 2008 Web
site. The Conference Chair and Program Co-Chairs have
arranged for a special section of Information
and Software Technology to contain extended and revised
versions of selected papers from TAIC PART 2008.